Epäkonjugoituneen

epäkonjugoituneen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective epäkonjugoitunut, which means not conjugated or not inflected. The term arises in linguistic discussions rather than in everyday language, because Finnish verbs are normally conjugated to reflect person, number, tense and mood. The prefix epä- signals negation, yielding a compound meaning of “not conjugated.”

In usage, epäkonjugoituneen is used to modify a noun in the genitive case. For example, in a theoretical discussion one might refer to epäkonjugoituneen sanan taivutus, meaning “the inflection of a non-conjugated word.” The base form epäkonjugoitunut describes a noun or concept as being non-conjugated, and epäkonjugoituneen is simply its genitive singular form to be used in phrases that require a possessive or relational construction.

Morphology-wise, epäkonjugoitunut is built from the stem konjugoit- with the participial ending -unut and the negating prefix epä-, and its inflected forms follow standard Finnish adjective declension. The specific genitive singular form epäkonjugoituneen reflects the usual pattern for adjectives ending in -inen in the genitive singular.

See also: konjugointi (conjugation), taivutus (inflection), epä- (negation prefix), suomalainen kielioppi (Finnish grammar). While the phrase epäkonjugoituneen appears mainly in theoretical linguistic contexts, it serves as a precise way to discuss concepts related to non-conjugation or defective inflection in language analysis.